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TIL The Department of Veterans Affairs still pays a pension to one surviving daughter of a Civil War veteran.

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woyEo TIL that Matt Damon via his ventures Water.org and WaterEquity raised $150 million in September alone from Starbucks, Gap, DuPont, and other big-name companies. The initiative aims to continue providing access to safe water and sanitation in some parts of Asia and Africa
j6NEQ TIL that fireflies are facing extinction in the United States.
5YwMR TIL the Apollo 11 rock presented to Ireland was accidentally discarded in a landfill known as the Dunsink Landfill in October 1977 following a fire that consumed the Meridian room library at the Dublin Dunsink Observatory where the rock was displayed.
5YvDD TIL Before Edward I was king of England, he was a prisoner of Simon de Montfort. One day, he asked if he could ride the guards horses and raced them one by one. When he got to the last horse, he rode off to freedom, and all the other horses were too tired to give chase.
N4Z1 TIL: In WW2 the Manhattan Project used the codename “Copper” for the element Plutonium. They then had to rename the element Copper to “Honest-to-God Copper.”